Knife.



H. C. PAGE.

KNIFE.

APPLmATloN FILED1UNE10.1913.

THE MORRIS PETERS CO PHoTo-LlTHo.. WASHING rON. D. C

UNITE sTATEs PATENT oeEEioE.

HERMAN C. PAGE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR- TO THE VTHITEHEAD & HOAG COMPANY, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION 0F NEW JERSEY.

' KNIFE.

Application led June 10,

T0 all whom it may concern Be it known that l, HERMAN C. PAGE, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex, in the State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Knives, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in knives and refers more particularly to the construction of the blade-supporting frame or handle of pocket knives.

The main object is to permit the use 0f comparatively inexpensive inserts or panels in one or both sides of the handle capable of bearing any desired ornamentation, printing or other matter impressed thereon without in any way sacrificing the strength or durability of the handle. ln other words, I have sought to produce a light, strong` and durable handle mainly of thin sheet metal constructed and arranged so as to receive and firmly hold one or more panels of thin sheet Celluloid or equivalent material capable of receiving the ornamentation, printing or other matter referred to.

Another object is to provide simple means for reinforcing the Celluloid panels and for attaching them to .the side plates of the handle.

A further object is to secure the sides of the handle to each other by the same means employed to retain the knife blade and spring in operative position.

Other objects and uses relating to specific parts of the knife will be brought out in the following description.

1n the drawings-Figure l is a face view of a pocket knife embodying the various features of my invention, the blade being closed. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same knife. Fig. 3 is a face view of the open knife with one side removed to show the relative position of the blade and spring back. Fig. 4: is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view through the handle of the knife and the portion of the open blade. Fig. 5 is an inner face view of one of the panel inserts. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the reinforcing plates of the insert.

This knife comprises a frame or handle -1- and one or more blades -2-, said handle being provided with oppositely disposed laminated side pieces 3 and an 1ntermediate spring bar -4- holding the side Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

1913. Serial No. 772,736.

pieces a suiicient distance apart to receive the blade or blades between them. The pieces -3- are similar and symmetrical and are, therefore, interchangeable from side to side or end to end and are usually elongated in the direction of length of the blade a sufficient distance to easily receive the blade within its end limits.

Each side piece of the handle is laminated and comprises an inner sheet metal plate -5-, an outer plate -6- of Celluloid or equivalent material and an intermediate reinforcing plate -7- also of sheet metal for stiffening the Celluloid plate -6-. The central portion of the inner plate -5- is depressed forming a sunken panel and a raised marginal bead 8 running entirely around the outer edge of the sunken panel a uniform distance from the edge of said plate, the outer portions of the bead being inclined inwardly so as to provide the plate with a relatively narrow beveledmarginal edge which may be laminated in any suitable manner as shown in Fig. l. The free marginal edges of this plate is disposed in approximately the same plane as the base of the sunken panel and together with the adjacent ends of said panel are adapted to rest against the adjacent faces of the spring plate or bar 4E- so that the opposite plates bear against opposite faces of the bar and are secured thereto by rivets -9-.

rI`he plates -6- and -7- of each side constitute what may be termed a raised panel of substantially the same size and form as the sunken panel in the plate -5- into which it is inserted and for this purpose the marginal edges of the reinforcing plate -7- are deflected at a slight angle inwardly while the marginal edges of the Celluloid plate f3- are similarly deflected inwardly and are crimped around and under the marginal edges of the reinforcing plate 7-, thereby locking the two plates together and permitting them to be inserted as a unit into the recess or sunken panel of the inner plate -5- where they are held by suitable fastening means as tongues -10- which are cut and stamped from the reinforcing plate -7- and pressed inwardly and inserted through slots or apertures -11- and clenched against the inner face of the plate -5- to firmly unite the panel insert to the main plate or body -5.

By bending the marginal edges of the revot inforcing plate -7-4 and its c'elluloid covering -6- inwardly, said plates become more or less concavo-co'nveX in cross section as Well as longitudinally, the inward' deflection of said marginal edges beingsuiiicient' surface of the Celluloid slightly beyond the corby giving a neat and kcharacteristic appearance to the handle. Y

rlhe 'Celluloid ycoverings or Vpanel inserts 6'- are adapted to receive any suitable v ornamentation, printing or otherl matter Y which may be printed or otherwise inscribed.

thereon or it maybe made transparent Aand printed matter or other ornamentation placed upon the adjacent surface of the reas to be i visiblev covering, theV inforcing plate -7-` so through the outer Celluloid main object being to provide'the main body or inner plates of the side pieces with sunken panels for the reception of an insert of the same form and sizev as the panel for the purpose of receiving ornamentation, printing or other matter.

The spring bar -li extends across one end` and along the back edge of the knife handle,`the opposite end being free to yield and is adapted to engage the heelof the blade in the usual manner for'knives of this character the blade being secured to and between one end of the plates '5'- kby a pivotal rivet Vl2-.

It will be'seen upon examination 4 that the rivets *49- and only 4through the Vinner permitting said plates to of Fig. l2-'- are passed vplates -5, thus be secured in operative position to the spring'bar '-4- and to the plates which make up these Q ing a plate theblade4 before the Vpanelsare inbeen previously covered V`with the Celluloid' `facing 6 are inserted through their Yrespective Vapertures lland clenched against the inner sides of said platesvby means of a suitable tool plate having its central portion 4depressed Y" Y forming a marginal'bead 'running-entirely around the depression, the depressedportion being provided Y'with 'apertures,ja panel iitted in said Adepression e y e reinforcing pla-te having tongues'passedv through saidaper'tures 'and lclenched against.

Y inserted "throught the blade `Vopening.between theY plates when inserts jto ,their` respective plates- .serted after which the tongues -flO-.fpof the Vreinforcing plates '-71-- iwliich chave" Y. V55 les comprising 'a v and comprising" a Vthe inner Vface ofthe' first-namedI'platepand Y a cover secured to said outerplate.

2.V A side ypiece for knife handles vc'o'in'pris-` pressed formi-ng entirely around lthe depression, fthe' depressed portion being vprovided with apertures, 'and having y its central 'portien a Vmarginal bead running f a panelfitted in said vdepression and comprisingra reinforcing Aplate havingl'tonguesf, 'j

apertures and clenched against the inner face ofthe first named passed `through said plate andY a'covering coextensive with the area of and having its marginal edges crimped around'and reinforcing plate.

Inrwitness whereof I liaver'hereunto set`V my hand this fourth day-of Junefllly Witnesses:

WM. A. JONES, VA. K. BEARD.

Washington, D. C.

under the `edges ofl HERMAN C. PAGE. Y

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